Clearing things up...
I don't want people to assume that because I have come down so hard on certain people in here who are known to be formers that that is because I don't care about these people, or that I feel that they have no place to discuss things with us.
It's not discussion that I am bothered by. These people are welcome to discuss things with us.
What bothers me however, is the anti-SDA agenda that they are trying to push on us. It's just WRONG!
You don't go into a person's house as a guest and tell that person how bad his household is, and impose your views on his family. That is precisely what these people are doing in here and it is highly disrespectful.
I think they can enter into discussion with us without attacking our Church and its doctrines. Yet, we don't see them doing this. So what does this tell us about their character? What does it tell us about their objective in here? It should be obvious to all of us what spirit is behind this, and we should not stand for it!
I just wanted to clear that up with everyone so that they don't think I have said what I have said to these people because I don't care. It is because I care that I have confronted them on these things. Some people fail to see that however.
So my thought on this is that if they are going to just come in here and assault our church and its doctrines I would rather that they stay out of our forum altogether. But if they want to come in here and share in a friendly discussion with us that is both spiritually edifying and uplifting, without bringing all of that anti-SDA baggage with them, then they are more than welcome to do so.
Discussion in itself is not the problem. It's the content that we take into a discussion that makes it problematic.